You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
JORDAN PETERSONThere’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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